Pak spot-fixing: '50,000 pounds found, Salman Butt faces Pak probe'

Butt is one of the seven Pakistani cricketers under cloud after a UK tabloid reported that a bookie accepted money from its undercover reporter to get the team to bowl three no-balls during the Lord's Test.

An FIA team, which reached London to look into allegations of fixing during Pakistan's ongoing tour of England, found 50,000 pounds from Butt's hotel room.

Butt is one of the seven Pakistani cricketers under cloud after a UK tabloid reported that a bookie accepted money from its undercover reporter to get the team to bowl three no-balls during the Lord's Test. The bookie was arrested after the scandal emerged.

Earlier, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that a three-member FIA team would fly to London as the government had taken serious notice of the fixing scandal.

"The FIA delegation will be headed by an additional director and they will not only assist but also carry out their own inquiries into the allegations made against our players," agencies quoted Malik as saying.

"The Scotland Yard is doing its own investigation. Our team is there to assist them and also independently find out what has happened," he said. "This issue has already hurt our image and that of Pakistan cricket and we want to know the truth. We want to be clear about our cricket future."

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